Instant Feedback Button

[vickyblueeyez]

Title:
Instant Feedback Button

Area:
Posts

Summary:
Similar to the Facebook 'like' button, have a 'favorite' button, kudos, etc. Some sort of button, where if a person likes an entry but doesn't want to comment, they can leave some sort of feedback.

Description:
As somewhat of an author, it's frustrating when one doesn't get reviews. I may not get reviews but I do see when people favorite one of my stories on another site. That site keeps track of how many have favorite your work. Since many authors might be coming here, I think having some kind of like/favorite/kudos button would be great. Fanfiction.net and DeviantArt.com have similar options.

Poll #6525 Instant Feedback Button

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Should be implemented as-is.
165 (59.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
46 (16.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
44 (15.8%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (6.1%)

(Other: please comment)
6 (2.2%)

Comments

[cheyinka]

I have no problem with the anonymous "I read this!" polls at the end of posts, because I've only ever seen them on fic. For me there's an enormous difference between "You might not have the time and/or energy to leave feedback right now, but would you at least indicate you read the fic?" and "You might not have the time and/or energy to comment on my post about [my cat having kittens, my sister joining the Army, my basement flooding], but would you at least indicate that you [agree with, support] me?" - the one feels like a bonus for me so I don't feel guilty for not commenting, the other would feel like an obligation to indicate agreement or to write a comment expressing my lack of agreement, lest it look like I was skipping the post, since "I didn't have time to write a comment" or "I didn't know what to say" wouldn't be plausible social fictions anymore.

I would be more okay with the increment-the-counter thingies if they had to be opt-in on a post-by-post (and comment-by-comment, I guess) basis; the clutter was never the issue for me, so I wouldn't mind a "9 people have [incremented the counter on] this comment" mention.

[redbird]

A friend of mine deals with this by occasionally including "if you read this, please leave a comment, even if it's just a period, so I'll know people saw it" at the end of their posts. That seems undemanding, in part because they're explicitly saying "tell me you read this" rather than "indicate that you agree/support me," but in general I wouldn't want it on my own posts. I think that's best handled individually by the poster (who can certainly copy and paste that text if they use it repeatedly) rather than built into the code.